Electronic Art Guidelines

If you plan to submit electronic files for artwork or graphics with your manuscript, please take the time to read these guidelines. By following them, you can ensure the quality of the reproduction of your illustrations and also avoid potentially costly delays to the production of your book.

Guidelines for Submitting Electronic Art with your manuscript

If you plan to submit electronic files for artwork or graphics with your manuscript, please take the time to read this document. By following these guidelines, you can ensure the quality of the reproduction of your illustrations and also avoid potentially costly delays to the production of your book.

ILLUSTRATIONS/FIGURES/GRAPHS/MAPS

Although there are many programs available for creating all manner of computer graphics, not all of these are compatible with the software used by our typesetters and our printers. Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard for creating computer graphics for output to a professional printer, but our typesetters can also use illustrations created in CorelDraw and Aldus Freehand.

All graphics/illustrations should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi. Any shaded areas behind text should be set between 10-20% black in order to keep the text legible. When submitting graphics, please include a decent-quality printout (at 100%) of your electronic file so that it can be used for editing and sizing. Our books are generally 6 x 9 inches and our graphics do not exceed a maximum of 30 x 43 picas (there are 6 picas in an inch). Please keep your original digital files. If you are submitting Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw documents, please send both working files and a copy of your graphic/illustration saved as a TIFF or an EPS. If you are submitting graphics created using Aldus Freehand, please save your illustration as a TIFF or EPS. When you send your files, please provide the following information: illustration program used and version number (ie. Adobe Illustrator 7.0): type of computer (ie. PowerMac); and file format (ie. TIFF).

Please be aware that we have previously been unable to use graphics files created in Harvard Graphics or Powerpoint; submitting your graphics in either of these formats can result in additional costs to recreate the graphics. If you are using a graphics program not mentioned in this document, you may submit an electronic file, but please be advised that problems and incompatibilities may occur, resulting in increased charges.